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  • Dave2002
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    • Dec 2010
    • 18007

    A

    Thessalonica

    Ansermet

    Mahler first

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    • mercia
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 8920

      Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
      A

      Thessalonica

      Ansermet

      Mahler first
      oh, that's a bit easier than your last one. but I won't answer in case anyone else is playing.

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      • mercia
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        • Nov 2010
        • 8920

        Maurice Abravanel was born in Salonika or Thessalonica, lived for a time in the same house as Ernest Ansermet in I guess Lausanne, and according to wiki made the first complete recording of Mahler 1 - 9.
        Last edited by mercia; 02-07-11, 15:31. Reason: spelling

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        • Dave2002
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          • Dec 2010
          • 18007

          Originally posted by mercia View Post
          Maurice Abravanel was born in Salonika or Thessalonica, lived for a time in the same house as Ernest Ansermet in I guess Lausanne, and according to wiki made the first complete recording of Mahler 1 - 9.
          Well done! It's your B now. Maybe we have to have a few easy ones now. Perhaps everyone else is watching tennis.

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          • mercia
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 8920

            not sure what counts as easy anymore, anyway ..............

            what B connects

            - orthopaedics
            - singular & serious symphonies
            - a Birgit first

            ?

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            • amateur51

              Originally posted by mercia View Post
              not sure what counts as easy anymore, anyway ..............

              what B connects

              - orthopaedics
              - singular & serious symphonies
              - a Birgit first

              ?
              Franz Berwald was an orthopaedic surgeon who also wrote music, including a symphony entitled Singuliere.

              I'm working on the rest

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              • mercia
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 8920

                Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                Franz Berwald


                cor, well done ams

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                • mercia
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 8920

                  hope you're not still working on this
                  since you have singuliere, by deduction you have serieuse
                  put Birgit and Estrella together and you've got the last part

                  and the C question

                  well done, I'm logging off now

                  ta-ta

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                  • amateur51

                    Originally posted by mercia View Post
                    hope you're not still working on this
                    since you have singuliere, by deduction you have serieuse
                    put Birgit and Estrella together and you've got the last part

                    and the C question

                    well done, I'm logging off now

                    ta-ta
                    An aria from Berwald's opera Estrella de Soria was Birgit Nilsson's first recording in 1947 - cheers for that, mercia

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                    • amateur51

                      What C connects

                      Aladdin

                      Bob Dylan

                      Tom Waits

                      All three clues contain a musical element. The answer beginning with C is not musical
                      Last edited by Guest; 02-07-11, 20:41. Reason: additions

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                      • Dave2002
                        Full Member
                        • Dec 2010
                        • 18007

                        Totally lost! Bob Dylan and Tom Waits have had Chats together. There are places like Aladdin Theater where they have performed. That doesn't uncover a musical element for each clue though. Puzzled!

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                        • mercia
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 8920

                          Carl?
                          Last edited by mercia; 03-07-11, 06:23.

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                          • Dave2002
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                            • Dec 2010
                            • 18007

                            As in Carl Nielsen? He was musical!

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                            • mercia
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 8920

                              Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
                              As in Carl Nielsen? He was musical!
                              yes quite
                              I've found some vague Carl/Waits and Carl/Dylan connections too but they're a bit tenuous
                              so I'm more than likely wrong

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                              • amateur51

                                Carl Nielsen's Aladdin is right - something about it links with Bob & Tom.

                                The C is a place - go figure
                                Last edited by Guest; 03-07-11, 07:39. Reason: too possessive

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